you can do whatever you want, but if you really want to hear my opinion on it... at best, ai-art is demoralizing to actual human beings and creates novelty slop that vaugely looks like an art piece, while not harboring any skill in using it. and theres nothing wrong with not wanting to make art fir the skill of it, though. but at worst, it's an environmental and economic disaster, a predatory business model to consumers and customers of AI, and a great way for businessmen to try and take creativity away from us to turn us into cogs in the machine. it's built off of the stolen work of artists who already struggled to make a living, now forced out by a tool that's turned on them with their own work. it can help make propaganda that is virtually unidentifiable, turn victims into deepfakes, and generally evil we have yet to see. and that's just the image side of things, but the cons of all types of ai models overlap.
I've had to watch people throw away their lifelong dreams because of this garbage. it's no coincidence elonely muskrat and every ceo you can think of are obsessed with it - it's a perverse business tool.
I wouldn't mind coexisting with it if it wasn't out to get me. but it is.
I also feel like it's the reason nobody makes fun photobashes or random photoshops anymore. it will never fully phase out human art but I think it's starting to take over the photography world, especially commercially. I'm sick of looking up real places and animals and sorting through fake slop im being told is real.
Apr 14, 2025
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Apologies if this is strongly worded, but I'm pretty passionate about this. In addition to the functions public-facing AI tools have, we have to consider what the goal of AI is for corporations. This is an old clichƩ, but it's a useful one: follow the money. When we see some of the biggest tech companies in the world going all-in on this stuff, alarm bells should be going off. We're seeing a complete buy in by Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and even Meta suddenly pivoted to AI and seems to be quietly abandoning their beloved Metaverse. For decades, the goal of all these companies has always been infinite growth, taking a bigger share of the market, and making a bigger profit. When these are the main motivators, the workforce that carries out the labor supporting an industry is what inevitably suffers. People are told to do more with less, and cuts are made where C-suite executives see fit at the detriment of everyone down the hierarchy. Where AI is unique to other tangible products is that it is an efficiency beast in so many different ways. I have personally seen it affect my job as part of a larger cost-cutting measure. Microsoft's latest IT solutions are designed to automate as much as possible in favor of having actual people carry out typically client-facing tasks. Copy writers/editors inevitably won't be hired if people could instead type a prompt into ChatGPT to spit out a product description. Already, there are so many publications and Substacks that use AI image generators to create attention-grabbing header and link images - before this, an artist could have been paid to create something that might afford them food for the week. All this is to say that we will see a widening discrepancy between the ultra-wealthy and the working class, and the socio-economic structure we're in actively encourages consolidation of power. There are other moral implications with it that I could go on about, but they're kind of subjective. In relation to art, dedicating oneself to a craft often lends itself to fostering a community for support in one's journey, and if we collectively lean on AI more instead of other people, we risk isolating ourselves further in an environment that is already designed to do that. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to co-exist with something that is made to make our physical and emotional work obsolete.
Mar 24, 2024
AI is garbage for so many reasons and none of us should be using it.
that includes making art as well as seemingly mundane corporate tasks.
itās atrocious for the planet, itās horrific for the uncredited workers who labor to power it, it bulldozes all notions of āprivacyā and further fast-tracks the commodification of humanity, and itās fueling the dumpster fire that is an entire generation of brains raised in the cesspool of the internet.
Jan 13, 2025
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Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours?
I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual peopleās actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AIās biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because itās a fun new toy.
Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children donāt use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists donāt use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas donāt exist, as if cardboard and tape arenāt in over abundance.
Apr 15, 2025
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doing bad things is good for your mental health sometimes. I think. idk
Apr 16, 2025
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so when I was a kid I tried to lucid dream and (in my experience) it's really easy to practice and achieve intentionally. but I had my first one in years, first time unintentionally, the other night and it was med induced x~x there's pros and cons to it.
so first of all, my first experiences... I've never had a lot of dreams in general, but I started keeping a dream journal and it instantly made them skyrocket in vividness. and at the time it was really appalling because it was really a lot, and felt exhausting mentally. but I recently found out I don't go into "deep sleep" as much as I should and bounce between light and REM sleep more. so if you sleep "typically" it probably won't be as jarring. but I do wonder if it affects your deep sleep state. but anyway, I woke up exhausted everyday and just barely reached lucidity. and at that point the pros outweighed the cons. so be warned it could be taxing if your body isn't naturally leaning into it.
but I accidentally achieved lucid dreaming the other day, after med changes have been giving me more dreams without journaling or any kind of pre-bed practice. and it was surprisingly great - I slept really well through it and woke up rested. but the entire time I felt like I could control where I went in my dream, what I was doing, recalling events - even having dreams of different memories. it was just really trippy.
my current working theory is that I was going too fast with my previous attempt. when it happened on accident, my mind was already used to dreaming regularly, and eased into it by itself. so it is possible to "force", but you likely won't need to. I recommend maybe just thinking about lucid dreaming in a positive light as you're dosing off to increase the chances of it happening. I think if you're also prone to nightmares that it might be best to not try to train yourself into lucid dreaming, that might've been part of the reason my super vivid younger dreams were too intense, even though they weren't nightmares.
it's not really super wild though like people say, at least for me. like it's not really creative mode in your dreams. maybe if you train your brain to get that way but idk. sleep is really important to get the rest of your day on track and if there's too much REM it could get annoying! so maybe approach it like a cool thing that can happen but more of a circumstance than something you need to work hard to achieve each night, unless that's fun for you.
but I am not a sleep doctor I'm just some guy
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